IMSE Webinar Series
Greener Plastics Future and Sustainable Materials
The challenge that will be discussed in this session is:
Plastic Recycling – Current Challenges and Future Outlook
Join us for this informal webinar with Professor Jason Hallett There will be an opportunity for question and answer after the presentation. To join this webinar you must register in advance and you will be emailed the joining instructions for the webinar.
Biography
Professor Jason Hallett
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Sustainable Chemical Technology
Prof Jason Hallett received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Imperial College, first with a Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainable Chemistry and in 2014 was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, before promotion to Reader in 2016 and Professor in 2018. He has authored over 90 articles and holds 4 patents. His current research interests involve the solvation behaviour of ionic liquids and the use of ionic liquids in the production of lignocellulosic biofuels, sustainable chemical feedstocks, vaccine manufacturing and waste recycling (particularly for metal-contaminated solid materials). This research is supported by both the UKRI and industry.
Prof Hallett currently serves as Director of the Imperial Network of Excellence in Industrial Biotechnology and as theme leader for Biorenewables and Biofuels research in the Manufacturing Futures Lab. He is also a core member of the Supergen Bioenergy Hub and the Future Vaccines Manufacturing Research Hub.
He is also co-founder of Lixea, a spin-out company based on the group’s ionic liquid biorefinery research.
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More Webinars in the Greener Plastics Future and Sustainable Materials Series
All webinars in this series are based on the theme of the new IMSE / OPSN briefing paper which. The launch of this briefing paper will be held on 8 July at 16.30 online. To register for the event please click here.
- 2 June 14.00 Developing Better Manufacturing Processes Through Molecular Engineering presented by Professor Claire Adjiman
- 16 June 14.00 Making and Breaking Materials with Ionic Liquids presented by Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot
- 23 June 14.00 Optimising Sustainable Chemicals & Fuels Using Process Systems Engineering presented by Dr Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez
- 7 July 14.00 Fibre-based Electronics for Sustainable E-textiles presented by Dr Felice Torrisi
- 8 July 16.30 Enabling Greener Plastics Future through Molecular Science IMSE Briefing paper Launch
- 14 July 14.00 Imaging Physical Degradation of Bio-Plastics presented by Professor Alexandra Porter
- 21 July 14.00 Upgrading Waste with (Nano)cellulose presented by Dr Koon-Yang Lee
- 28 July 14.00 Plastic Recycling – Current Challenges and Future Outlook presented by Professor Jason Hallett